The Wrong Side of my Car
The blog that wants to go obsolete
25 Aug 2021
The scale of Auckland
I sometimes tell people the scale of Auckland is mind-boggling. An endless sea of houses. Where does that impression come from?
It is of course because what I am used to in Europe. European cities have a different history, and therefore developed with a different settlement pattern. If we would have a city with that sort of pattern over here, what would it look like? How big is it?
We could come up with some imaginary settlement pattern, with about 1.5 to 1.7 million imaginary people.
17 Aug 2021
3 years later, pedestrians (and cyclists) did not gain right of passage across Cook Street
That was 3 years ago. In this post I wrote:
there’s only so much you can do before the automobiles strike back.